The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment on Thursday said roughly 9,000 gig workers received overpayments of their benefits. The agency is now trying to work with those claimants who were then asked to pay back that money.
“Basically it was panic mode, what are we going to do?” Jacob Nordby said.
Nordby was an Uber driver whose work all but stopped with the shutdown. The opportunity to apply for help following the passing of the CARES Act kept him afloat.
“It was a lifesaver,” Nordby said.
The same can be said for Adam Brill, another gig worker who lost work during the pandemic.
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